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The Death of Poor Joe
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Wikipedia article
'The Death of Poor Joe' is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as Joe, a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman. The film, which went on release in March 1901, takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' 1853 novel 'Bleak House', and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character.Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple, 'Visual delights two: exhibition and reception', Publisher John Libbey Eurotext, 2005, , 9780861966578, 266 pages, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9cWSHOsXuLQC&lpg=PA77&dq=%22Death%20of%20Poor%20Joe%22%20%22Warwick%20Trading%20%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q=%22Death%20of%20Poor%20Joe%22&f=false page 77] The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140102190837/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44516 The Death of Poor Joe] in the BFI Film & TV Database Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was 'Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost', released in November 1901.
Cast
* Laura Bayley as Joe
* Tom Green as the policeman
See also
* List of rediscovered films
References
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